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To: jjs_ynot who wrote (16097)	1/16/2004 10:07:57 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Dave, if you thought it was bad 10 years ago, you won't want to come back. Some recent road improvements have eased up congestion in the Tysons Corner area (somewhat) but the number of office buildings containing Fortune 500 companies has multiplied to negate some of the benefits--the latest is a new headquarters building recently built to house Capital One Financial. The Fairfax County Parkway has finally been completed, but more development has sprung up along that road to make things more crowded. As always, Route 66 can become gridlock at any time of the day or night, weekends and weekdays, because it carries so much traffic from outlying areas which have grown tremendously. Manassas used to be considered another planet, but is now regarded as relatively close-in. People now commute into town from as far away as Fredericksburg. The Beltway just keeps getting widened but more crowded. Huge amounts of new home construction over the past 10 years in the Western end of Fairfax County, plus in Loudoun and Prince William counties, has created traffic where none existed before. The number of new schools which have been built in these areas over the past 10 years is also pretty amazing. People like our schools, so they come. Traffic is one reason I think more older people might want to eventually move into DC and take one of those condos--they no longer need the suburban schools (and won't want to pay high taxes to support them), they couldn't care less that the schools in DC aren't so hot, and it could make for a greatly improved lifestyle, unless they leave the area altogether, which is what I want to do. Where did you move after living here?